domineers

The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

I had rather contend with bulls, lions, bears, and giants, than with Love; he is so powerful, enforceth [4644] all to pay tribute to him, domineers over all, and can make mad and sober whom he list; insomuch that Caecilius in Tully's Tusculans, holds him to be no better than a fool or an idiot, that doth not acknowledge Love to be a great god.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And thence it comes to pass, that in city and country so many grievances of body and mind, and this feral disease of melancholy so frequently rageth, and now domineers almost all over Europe amongst our great ones.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Is he a free man over whom a woman domineers, to whom she prescribes laws, commands, forbids what she will herself; that dares deny nothing she demands; she asks, he gives; she calls, he comes; she threatens, he fears; Nequissimum hunc servum puto, I account this man a very drudge.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Quam servi rabies in libera colla furentis; he forgets what he was, domineers, &c., and many such other symptoms he hath, by which you may know him from a true gentleman.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

For having associated to itself a mean paltry sort of music, and falling from that divine sort of poetry with which it was formerly acquainted, it rules now and domineers amongst foolish and inconsiderate spectators, like a tyrant, it hath subjected nearly all music, but hath lost all its honor with excellent and wise men.

Symposiacs 2004

For having associated to itself a mean paltry sort of music, and falling from that divine sort of poetry with which it was formerly acquainted, it rules now and domineers amongst foolish and inconsiderate spectators, like a tyrant, it hath subjected nearly all music, but hath lost all its honor with excellent and wise men.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbours as though they were dependents and buffoons.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

For this jealous and contentious house Divell, domineers as well among people of great respect, as those of lesser degree; though there be some which so order it, that they smother this fire within dores, and suffer it not to burst out at the house top.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

A pure idea, without a material hand or weapon, domineers over the greatest empire under the sun, in spite of the whole power of that empire armed to crush it.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various